HEALTH
Dirty Water Kills 4,000 Children a Day
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (IPS) - The statistics are mind-boggling: of the more than six billion people in the world today, over one billion have no access to improved drinking water - a basic necessity for human life - and about 2.6 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation. And according to the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, polluted water and lack of basic sanitation claim the lives of over 1.5 million children every year, mostly from water-borne diseases. "Despite commendable progress," says UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman, "an estimated 425 million children under 18 still do not have access to an improved water supply, and over 980 million do not have acce ss to adequate sanitation." She said those who die are by no means the only children affected. "Many millions more have their development disrupted and their health undermined by diarrhoeal or water-related diseases." In a 33-page report titled "Progress for Children: a Report Card on Water and Sanitation" released Thursday, UNICEF says these "tragic statistics" underscore the need for the world to meet its commitment to one of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): to halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
This report is very disturbing and has burdened VP of Solar Fusion -Ken Boyle and "Can no longer sit back and do nothing" so Solar Fusion has announced its strategic alliance with a US government approved portable Solar Water purification system to provide clean water to children throughout the World. "I am calling this movement Project Reverb" says Boyle, "we will team up with people throughout the World who have a heart to make a difference and leave a lasting legacy". “Changing the World One drop at a time”
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